A headline about the "book ban" was the most prominent item on the front-page of Friday's weekend paper, published before the shooting attack in Tel Aviv Friday afternoon ("Protests of book ban take off, Bennett digs in").

Thursday, Dec. 31, was the first of the three consecutive days in which the alleged book "ban" occupied prominent real estate on the paper's front page:

Despite the impressive number of headlines about the book "ban," in fact, there is no ban. As Sharon Pulwer's front page article accurately reports today: "Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein plans to investigate the Education Ministry's decision to exclude Dorit Rabinyan's novel 'Borderlife" from the high-school literature curriculum."

In other words, the Education Ministry opted not to include the book in a high school curriculum, overruling an earlier decision from the ministry's professional advisory committee to include it. But deciding to exclude a book from a curriculum is hardly tantamount to a "ban."

Indeed, Haaretz's Hebrew edition, in its extensive coverage, did not use language suggesting a "ban." The Hebrew edition does not use the word "ban" ("cherem" or "eesur"). The Hebrew edition's accurate language is "disqualification," "psilah."

For instance, while today's erroneous front-page headline in English is: "AG to probe ministry decision to ban 'Borderlife' book" the Hebrew edition's headline for the same story (story on page 3, as opposed to the front-page), uses the accurate language of "psilah," disqualification or exclusion. It states: "Weinstein will check the disqualification of 'Borderlife'; High school students circulate a petition against the new civics textbook."

Unfortunately, the mistranslation is not limited only to headlines. Today's editorial, in the English edition, also uses the erroneous language: "Even though the broad public criticism of the ban had to do with the reasons given for it. . . ." Again, the editorial, in the original Hebrew, does not use this erroneous language.

The Education Ministry also expressed concern that young people of adolescent age dont have the systemic view that includes considerations involving maintaining the national-ethnic identity of the people and the significance of miscegenation.

As Oren Kessler pointed out, the Education Ministry did not cite "miscegenation." It cited assimilation, "hitbolelut." The Hebrew version of the same article accurately reported the Ministry's language.